Author: H. Belloc
Title: The Bad Child&Apos;S Book of Beasts
Description: London, Duckworth & Co. 1896. Hardback. An illustrated copy of this charming collection of verses for children from French-English writer Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated throughout. A charmingly imaginative and cautionary children's book full of verses aiming to give advice to children and warn them away from bad behaviour. Written by Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Belloc, a French-English writer, politician, and historian, also remembered as an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Illustrated by Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood, a British illustrator best known as "B. T. B." Dated from the British Library. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light bumping and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and board edges with light loss to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with age toning to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: B. T. B. [Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood]. Good .
Keywords: Bad CHild's Book Beasts CHild's B. T. B. B. T. B. [Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood]
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Title: The Bad Child&Apos;S Book of Beasts
Description: London, Duckworth & Co. 1896. Hardback. An illustrated copy of this charming collection of verses for children from French-English writer Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated throughout. A charmingly imaginative and cautionary children's book full of verses aiming to give advice to children and warn them away from bad behaviour. Written by Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Belloc, a French-English writer, politician, and historian, also remembered as an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Illustrated by Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood, a British illustrator best known as "B. T. B." Dated from the British Library. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light bumping and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and board edges with light loss to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with age toning to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: B. T. B. [Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood]. Good .
Keywords: Bad CHild's Book Beasts CHild's B. T. B. B. T. B. [Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood]
Price: GBP 50.00 = appr. US$ 71.40 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 952T64
- Book number: 952T64
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